Clark quickly rushed into his room to find Pete sitting on the couch holding a bag of chips and watching the football game on TV.
"Hey man. What happened?" He asked anxiously.
"Oh, I just got some guy trying to get into a girl's dorm room." He said simply while changing back into his school clothes. He placed his glasses firmly on his face to finish the ensemble and went to his room.
"Well, anyone we know?"
"It was in New York. I doubt it."
"Okay... let me rephrase, was it Lana?" Pete asked.
"Alright... so maybe it was. So what?" Clark asked defensively.
"Uh huh. That's what I thought. I'm sure you let a plane crash somewhere or an evil robot take over a country so the evil man wouldn't hurt Lana." Pete said jokingly.
"Yeah right. I don't have favorites Pete. I help those who need help."
"So... if Lana was in trouble and Metropolis was about to be hit by a nuke or something, what would you do?"
"I would save them all." Clark said, annoyed.
"You can't, you have to save one or the other, which would you choose?"
Clark didn't respond. He just put his shoes on and grabbed his book bag before heading to class.
"She doesn't even know who you are buddy!" Pete called as Clark slammed the door shut.
It was true. She didn't know that he talked to her every spare minute he got and that he also saved her life. She only knew about his screen name and a totally different guy with tights that saved her from someone trying to get into her dorm room.
He pulled his laptop out when he got to class and connected to the Internet. He signed on and immediately found that Lana was online. He smiled before IMing her.
SuperDude: Hey!
Tom'sAngel: Guess what!
SuperDude: What?
He already knew what, she was going to tell him about her encounter with Superman.
Tom'sAngel: Superman came and saved my friend when this guy tried to shoot her, and then he somehow knew that I really wasn't a big fan, and he didn't care. He was so nice too.
Clark smiled.
SuperDude: That's great. So you are starting to like him then?
Tom'sAngel: I think I am. I mean; he seems so real. I expected him to be more conceded. He even got the window fixed for free. I really want to thank him.
Clark remembered the stunned look on the man's face when he asked him for a window replacement. The guy had been too stunned to do anything but nod a little and say that it was on the house. Clark had thanked him profusely of course, but the man would have none of it and said it was his pleasure.
SuperDude: That was nice of him. You definitely should thank him.
Tom'sAngel: I don't know how though. I mean... I don't really want to go and get into some trouble that might be dangerous and have him come save me just because I wanted to say something if there are people that need him more.
SuperDude: Well, I happen to know that he has made a few visits to New York lately for other things besides work. It's been all over the Kansas local papers. Nothing too terrible has happened. He does have super hearing, so maybe you should just get his attention.
Tom'sAngel: Good idea. Thanks Clark. I'll ttyl.
SuperDude: For once you are the one that's leaving. LOL.
Tom'sAngel: Yeah... weird. Bye.
SuperDude: Bye.
Tom'sAngel has signed off.
Clark smiled to himself as he kept his ears attentive. He was just waiting for an excuse to see Lana. He waited for a few more hours before getting online again to see that Lana wasn't there. He frowned but then remembered that she was in class. It was Thursday, so she would have her last class at 2:00, which means she would be out around 4:30. He looked down at his watch and it read 3:45. Only an hour or so left. He was getting very impatient. He couldn't wait to see what kind of 'Thank You' he would be getting.
At around 5:00, Clark could have sworn he heard Lana, but he had been saying that to himself for a while now. He was starting to think he was actually hearing things.
Pete gave a worried glance in Clark's direction.
"Hey man, are you alright?" Pete asked.
"Yeah Pete. I'm just waiting for Lana to say something." Clark said impatiently.
"Okay man. I mean, you've been looking out the window like that for a little while now, you sure you don't want to watch some TV?"
"No TV; that will interrupt my concentration." Just as he finished his sentence, he heard it. Very clearly, he heard Lana's voice.
"Superman! I wanted to talk to you when you weren't busy!" She yelled, though Clark would have heard her if she was whispering. He immediately dawned his suite and sped off.
"Later Clark." Pete said while flipping the TV on.
Clark flew faster than he ever had before and ended up in New York in less than three minutes. He found the NYU campus and quickly sped to her room. When he was at the door, he knocked quickly and was met with Mollie at the door.
"Omihgod!" Mollie barely whispered as she saw Superman standing before her.
"It's okay. I just came by to-"But he couldn't finish, she was already on the floor, again.
"Mollie! Are you okay?" Lana said while rushing out to see if your roommate was okay, and to see who was at the door.
"That was awfully fast." Lana said while smiling. She looked at her roommate and shook her head.
"You said you wanted to talk to me?" Clark said with a dazzling smile.
"Yes, I wanted to thank you for taking care of the window and everything." Lana said while trying not to melt when he smiled.
"Oh, it's my pleasure. Are you sure your friend is going to be okay?" Clark asked, looking down at Mollie's unconscious form.
"Oh yeah, she is just, weird." Lana said while ushering him into the small dorm.
"I have a bed if you wanted to sit down." Lana said lamely while leading the way into her room.
'I have a bed if you wanted to sit down! What the hell was that Lang!' Lana thought to herself while awkwardly sitting down at her desk.
"So..." Lana started. She hadn't planned out anything to say after that.
"Yeah..." Clark was thinking about telling her that he was SuperDude. It would make so many things easier. He had always been brought up to tell the truth except when hiding his secret, but he didn't think Lana would tell anyone, so he went for it.
"Lana, I actually wanted to tell you something." Clark started nervously.
"Okay." Lana said while preparing herself for anything.
Just then his head started to ring as the piercing sound of a woman screaming and a man being punched echoed through his mind.
"I'm sorry, I have to go." Clark said before getting up and stumbling towards the door, his head still ringing.
"Are you okay?" Lana said while getting up to help. Clark's head was hurting a lot more than usual, and he stumbled back into Lana, who fell back onto the floor with him on top of her.
"Lana?" Clark said a few seconds later when his head cleared.
"Umm... Superman, could you just..." She was going to say for him to move, but she felt pleasantly comfortable with him fully on top of her. She felt a bit lightheaded from the fall and the fact that he was just slightly cutting off her air supply.
"Oh, I'm sorry Lana." Clark instantly got up and offered his hand to help her up.
"It's okay, sometimes when I get a call, it just comes in in surround sound; that's all." Clark said, reading Lana's worried expression.
"If you're sure." Lana said before opening the door to watch him speed away.
Clark took off into the sky and was quickly met with an array of bullets coming from his next target. The three men standing outside of the department store were shooting their machine guns like maniacs, hoping to deliver a fatal blow. Clark smirked as the bullets bounced off of his impenetrable chest and he swooped down and grabbed one of the men, taking his gun and delivering him to the police creating a blockade outside.
"Thank you Superman. How many more were there?" One officer asked.
"I saw two more outside, but I will get a look inside." Clark assured them. He took off and zoomed past the other two men and into the store. It was empty with the exception of a few men with ski masks trying to break through a vault. Clark quickly put an end to that with a forceful blow of ice from his mouth, freezing all of the men in place. He picked the group up and tossed them out the front window of the store into the other two men outside still rapidly firing their guns.
They were knocked down and passed out instantly.
"Thank you Superman!" The police officers said while taking the men into custody.
"Anytime!" He said while jutting his chest out and smiling for a nearby camera and then zooming triumphantly into the sky. Once he was high enough, he rolled his eyes and started back off towards Lana's dorm. When he got there Lana was in her room watching the news, where the latest images of Superman saving the department store were shown. He walked in and saw Mollie coming out of her room.
"Suh...suh... Superman!" She said before passing out yet again. Clark just rolled his eyes heavenward and continued to Lana's door. He knocked before waiting for her to let him in.
"Mollie, for the last time, you don't have to knock." Lana said while answering the door to find Superman in all his glory.
"Hey... back so soon?" Lana said while opening the door. Clark walked in and looked at the picture of him smiling for the news team on the scene.
"I hate doing that." Clark confided. "I only do it because they told me once when I was saving someone that I needed to look more 'photogenic'. I'm glad the media really cares about what's happening." Clark said while laughing.
"Well, that's the reason I always thought you were conceded, because you stand there and pose for pictures." Clark just shook his head.
"It's okay. I really should get going though, I have class in 30 minutes." He said before getting up.
"You're in college? You save the world and go to school, I'm impressed." Lana said with a smirk.
"Well don't be, I can do my homework pretty fast, so it makes up for the time I spend helping people." He said while heading for the door.
"You can come by any time. I'm sure Mollie will get used to it after a while. She isn't usually like that." Lana said.
"Great, I might take you up on that offer." Clark said brightly before heading back to Kansas.